Need help with decision

I am cross posting this with the pictures/miscellany section only because I need a reply by tomorrow and there are members who inhabit this forum who I regard very highly.

Can you please tell me which of the three versions of this shot you prefer?

I need to make up my own mind by tomorrow (Monday), but am torn mostly because I think that one of the B & Ws fits the mood of the late 19th and early 20th century better. But the colors in the color version seem compelling also.

I really appreciate all your fast replies and comments. I will go with the majority, but with the floor of #3.

I have darkened the floor rather easily as it turns out. So this latest incarnation is the result of using the red filter in layer/image adjustments/black & white, adding a little blue which brings out the darker machine parts, and finally subtracting a lot of yellow which darkened the floor as in number 3. The result is basically #2 with the yellow reduction. It probably would have been a lot more work if I didn't have CS3.

Ray old friend, I don't know whether this is how you did it or not. I do prefer to stick to just the B&W - no toning.

Finally, since you all took the trouble to help, let me say that I created #3 because I thought the "real" old wheel might actually have been dark.

yes, that was it....I knoew you would do something similar so the toned version was just an option.......

OK for me...and I hope you don't mind....it has to be your last processed image....

By the way....great image whatever!!!!

Best wishes as always

Ray

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Thanks Ray.

For the record, the photo was taken on a mill floor at a museum in Lowell, Mass. The museum consists of a large part of the town, including a number of other buildings situated along a river. It even has a canal.

There's just this one thing that inks me John. The red wheel part of the machinery now looks more white than the original red color. So the original #3 was pretty close, imo. If you want it to look close to the original, perhaps try to lighten the red and green channel by just a hair?

Kind of like this? I won't get offended if you don't like it, this is so subjective really.

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Lynda you have certainly found a middle ground for that "red" wheel. Thanks for demonstrating what you meant in your first post. My reaction is that it makes the overall effect a little bland. As you say, treatment of this picture is very subjective.

Hi John, I prefer #3 and tried to emphasis the bright/dark parts a bit:

What do You think - industrial pictures are much better in b/w as in colour.
I tried to emulate the baryt-paper tones.

cheers tom

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Wow! This is anything but bland. Very dramatic. My reaction is that it loses more detail than I would want to sacrifice. Thanks for going to the trouble to find another alternative. I have a reason for needing a print tomorrow or else I might try modifying some of the modifications.

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